By Mel Odom First Published: 2014 Drake 3GI2RC is wanted for a murder he didn’t commit. Haunted by another man’s memories, the NAPD’s most infamous android cop must quickly uncover the truth of his own past. Unfortunately, his search has taken him from the familiar New Angeles streets to the politically volatile planet Mars. Will Drake find answers before he’s caught in the midst of…
By Mel Odom First Published: 2012 In a dystopian future, a bioroid detective struggles with his own artificial identity during his search for a killer. New Angeles Detective Drake 3GI2RC is not your average Bioroid. First, he’s one of the New Angeles Police Department’s few android cops, and second, he’s haunted by another man’s memories. But even as Drake investigates a very public crime, he…
By Mel Odom First Published: 2011 Set in the dystopian future of the popular board game Android, Golem, the first novel in The Identity Trilogy, delves into the world of science fiction and noir, and examines what it means to be both a bioroid and a good person. When a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can’t…
By Lawrence Watt-Evans First Published: 2010 If You Can Trust No One-Then Trust a Nobody. A new Carlisle Hsing adventure, and a return to Nightside City. Detective Carlisle Hsing counted herself lucky to escape Nightside City before dawn came and destroyed everything there. Unfortunately, just by surviving, and escaping to the planet of Prometheus, she has attracted the attention of a certain business magnate. Someone…
By Christopher Rowley First Published: 2010 Detective Rook Venner was a successful investigating officer for the Hudson Valley Police Department—until the General Sangacha murder case came across his desk and his world exploded. Now after being dragged through hell and back, Rook is on the run with Plesur, a Pleasure Model who is the one eyewitness to the murder. Plesur carries a secret in her…
By Christopher Rowley First Published: 2010 Following the explosive events of book one, Pleasure Model, Detective Rook Venner, Mistress Julia, and Plesur are on the run from the government troops trying to kill them and from a shadowy group that wants to capture Plesur alive for its own purposes. What secrets have been implanted in Plesur’s head—and why are they worth killing for? Caught between…
By Michael Marshall Smith First Published: 1994 Call him Stark. If you have to. If you’re lucky, you won’t call him at all. Because if you do, it means you’ve got trouble. Big trouble. And the problem is that before Stark is done fixing something, a whole lot of other things usually get broken. Like laws and lives—and anyone who gets in the way. It’s…
By James Luceno First Published: 2002 WELCOME TO VIRTUAL REALITY IN CYBERSPACE . . . WHERE EVERYTHING’S REAL–INCLUDING DEATH. Teenage misfits Marz and Tech are just two more orphaned brothers in New York, but they only live there. In the boys’ real world, the dazzling cybernetic metropolis known as Virtual Network, they are cybersleuths, genius hackers, and a cut above the best in Extreme Sports Racing. There…
By James Luceno First Published: 1995 CYBERSPACE—THE REAL FINAL FRONTIER… The place: New York City. The time: any day now. Tech and Marz are brothers, orphans, and misfits just about everywhere—except on the Virtual Network, where their monster gaming skills leave challengers choking on their datatrails; and their hacking expertise earns them serious cash as freelance cyber-sleuths, running down lost information and missing persons on…
By Andrew Swann First Published: 1999 Nohar Rajasthan, a private eye descended from genetically manipulated tiger stock, retired from the PI business ten years ago. As a moreau (someone descended from genetically manipulated animal stock) the human world treated as a second-class citizen. He’d had enough. Now her just wants to spend his remaining years in the peace and quiet of his wilderness homestead. That…
By Andrew Swann First Published: 1993 Set in Cleveland 100 years in the future, this debut novel is the story of Nohar Rajasthan, Private Eye, who’s a moreau–descended from genetically manipulated tiger stock. When Nohar is hired by a being illegally created from human stock to look into a murder, he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy of awesome proportions.
By Anthony Ryan First Published: 2013 In an era Gangs, killers, and vampires. One war-torn detective is the only hope of survival for a crime-ridden orbiting city… Alex McLeod paid dearly during the war for independence from Earth. It left the detective disfigured, jaded, and alone. In the aftermath of victory, Alex seethes as criminal factions and cold-blooded killers clash over control of the newly-liberated…
By WT Quick First Published: 1989 He is the master of information retrieval. A genius at finding out anything that anyone needs to know. All you have to do is call Josh Tower and have the loot in hand and you will discover the answer to any question you may have. Once upon a time he was working for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the deadly…
By William S. Kirby First Published: 1993 Jefferson Kayoto is a private detective with a knack for rubbing the right people the wrong way. He’s been to space before, and he didn’t like it. But Earth’s become too dangerous for Kayoto–and anyone who gets too close to him. Now he’s on a one-way trip to the moons of Saturn, and his only hope is a…
By Richard Paul Russo First Published: 1992 In the crumbling San Francisco of tomorrow, a former narcotics-squad cop is reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a serial killer’s return. Louis Tanner recognizes the ugly work of the Chain Killer, a maniac who dispatches his victims two at a time, welding the corpses together in a grotesque embrace and dumping them into a body of water.…
By Michael McQuay First Published: 1982 Swain wasn’t betting on his future. He’d returned home, wasted and flat broke, to find the city ravaged by a deadly plague. But when an old friend got fried before his eyes, Swain was back in business. The stakes were life and death for millions, including Swain’s long-lost love. Odds were he’d die catching the murderer–if the plague didn’t…
By Michael McQuay First Published: 1982 The 21st century’s toughest private eye in a future that doesn’t work, where crime is the national pastime & the supercorps have the cops in their hip pocket. In a world like that, you’ve got to be quick–or crazy. Mathew Swain is a little of both. Still reeling from the near death of the woman he loves, Swain takes…
By Michael McQuay First Published: 1981 The 21st century’s toughest private eye in a future that’s running down like a dime-store watch. Where the line between rich and poor is a DMZ and they clean the streets with meat wagons. If your not tough in a world like that, you’re dead. Swain is always first in line. this time it starts with a desperate Moon-to-Earth…
By Michael McQuay First Published: 1981 The twenty-first century’s hard-boiled private eye in a city where ghettos are war-zones, the rich hide behind six inches of plate, and the cops work for the highest bidder. In a town like that, you’ve got to be tough to stay alive. Someone had iced one of Swain’s friends with a weapon that left nothing but memories behind. That…
By Mick Farren First Published: 1988 The stuff that dreams are made of. Marlowe lived a life of fantasy while out in the real world a robot proxy contributed to the economy on his behalf. Marlowe’s image–down to the trench coat and the dingy “office” where he lived with his cat, Greenstreet. But he had never had a real case until a leggy looker dressed…
By Lawrence Watt-Evans First Published: 1989 Rating: Very Bad. Nightside City will die in the coming dawn — so why is someone trying to buy up the town? A blend of hard science fiction and hard-boiled film noir detective story. The far-side of tidally-locked Epimethus seemed like a good site for a city, far from the destroying rays of a dangerously close sun. But the…
By John Gregory Betancourt First Published: 1990 Steel-clawed catmen Hangman and Slash prown the burned-out urban Sprawl. For the gene-modded catmen, ripping off hot cargoes from rival animen is a fine life of thief vs. thief … cat vs. dog. Until Slash scores a take that a little too hot: the PED spy-eye, a top-secret sense-recorder implant that turns the human brain into a perfect…